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Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?
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Randall Dowling

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On 4/29/2024 at 12:31 AM, Black Cactus said:

Came across this website while hunting for books. I don't have any affiliation.

Their inventory doesn't cover my collecting interests, but they have a bunch of Dell, Avon, and other publishers for around $5 a book. I figured some of you might be interested!

https://careysemporium.com/collections/fiction?page=1&sort_by=created-descending

It's like ringing the dinner bell, posting a link like that.  :insane:

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On 4/29/2024 at 1:27 PM, Darwination said:

My rather large late night order wouldn't process because of a non-recognized address, and I'm supposedly getting help from the proprietor.  I suspect half the items in my cart will be gone by the time you jackals beat me to it. :makepoint:

I can't deny the possibility.

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Art, masquerading as Social relevance, masquerading as Science Fiction. I prefer this motorcycle cover to earlier printings, which rarely happens with me. GOD BLESS ...

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On 4/29/2024 at 6:35 PM, Darwination said:

Burgess is a total trip.  The last one I recall reading is A Dead Man in Deptford which is just as transgressive as this one here.

I like any PB that features efforts that helped set cultural high (and low ...) points of different eras. Kind of like household words. GOD BLESS ...

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Darwination

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I'm being helped by the proprietor to manually make me an invoice.  Amazingly, Eric didn't grab any from my cart. Different strokes and all :banana:

Pretty much beaters but the price is right.

I'm kind of finding myself either looking for dirt cheap readers or a crease-less high grade on pbs which is kind of weird cuz I like the middle ground in pulps and comics. 

I guess it's nice to have the choice on the more common books.

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On 4/29/2024 at 11:44 AM, Pat Calhoun said:

one of my all-time great book buys was at Pellucidar circa Dec 1979. was extra-special as it was the first hunt with my #1 son, Crane, then around a month old. hard to believe I had fifty bucks in my pocket, a lot of dough for the young family, but talk about an epic acquisition...

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I don't recall it. It might have been before I worked in the 'Rare Book Room'!

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Darwination

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I felt bad when people were showing war books that I didn't own a single pb, so I picked up an interesting looking one for a read. 

Of course there's a girl on the front :whistle:, Belarski art.  Originally I thought there was some spotting on the girls legs on this copy, but it's just the painting.

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Season for Passion - Lee Manning (Manning Lee Stokes?) (1951.Popular Library 341) cover Belarski

Do excuse my funky image naming system, but I'm go ahead and start including a title for the people that grab images.  I collect a lot of images for my files (if I can't own it, at least I can have a pretty picture) and imagine others do the same.

So, unconfirmed, as this is the only use of the alias I've discovered, but Lee Manning is certainly Manning Lee Stokes who had at least a couple of other romance/intrigue in Korea sort of stories. 

He wrote as Ken Stanton in the late Trojan detective pulps, and wrote noirs under his own name, but comics fans might know him best from this neat little entry at St. John (not my book, I do wish I had a copy tho)

All-Picture Mystery Paperback Original (1950). Story by Manning Lee Stokes in Comic Book Format

The Case of the Winking Buddha along with It Rhymes With Lust (written by Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller, art by Matt Baker with Ray Osirin inks) often get mentioned as first graphic novels (even if there were other predecessors like Milt Gross' He Done Her Wrong or Lynd Ward woodcut novels and others before that).  The Case of the Winking Buddha has not been scanned, so if anybody has an undercopy for me I'll see the job gets done right and that it gets up at the digital museums ;) Charles Raab art on Buddha. I digress...

Manning Lee Stokes later wrote in the Nick Carter Killmaster series, uncredited, as so many authors have done in building the Nick Carter name.  He also did entries in the John Eagle "Expeditor" series as Paul Edwards, the first eight books in the Richard Blade series as Jeffrey Lord, eleven books as Ken Stanton in the Aquanauts series, romances as Bernice Ludwell, and a fair amount of "sleaze" as Kermit Welles including Gambler's Girl with the stunner Rudy Nappi cover that was posted a few pages back (defo some other good covers on the Welles digests, too).

Season for Passion looks to be a mix of espionage and interracial romance, taboo, perhaps, but also a fact of life for soldiers abroad.  I just discovered a neat series of digests Babysan by Bill Hume via the last Heritage pulps auction (published in Japan) on the subject, though that's a different milieu than Korea.  Anyways, this one looks good. The back cover hook:

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I haven't landed this one yet also set in Korea, but it's going on the OUT OF CONTROL pb wantlist, as I can't seem to resist the Chiriacka covers, and this is a good one.

Under Cover of Night

Anyways, on the nightstand this goes.  This is the first of his I've read, and it looks to be a good place to start.

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I like it, too.  It's neat how the figure takes up most of the space but sort of blends in.   It's disturbing, too.  You've got the beautiful blond, but she's covered in dirt and grime.  When I was picking a copy (they're all cheap) I thought the grub on her knee was maybe a stain, but then you see it all over her.  Grimey just like this story's no doubt gonna be with Fletcher Flora *grimace*

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Here's another Steele Savage that didn't break the Bank. His style was flexible, this one is more in the vein of Citadel Of Fear. GOD BLESS ...

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